Logic has a bad reputation. Complaints vary from it being too abstract to it being reductive, and famously for it being too ‘mathy’. But what is too often overlooked is the window logic provides us into the foundations of our language.

The source of the English word virtue is Latin virtus derived from vir ’man’, the source also of English virago (‘manlike woman’) and ‘virile’, and so etymologically it denoted ‘manliness’.

In 1898, a young woman of twenty, newly married and living in Lahore, wrote a letter to her older sister: ‘I have decided to start a journal for women. Would you be willing to help me with the task, and write some essays for me?’.

In the dream factory farm of the Western pop music industry, women singer-songwriters with siren voices who are also anti-racist activists, gender non-conformists, emotional lightning rods and fountains of love are golden needles in a haystack.

I recently got a haircut. I don’t have a regular hairdresser, instead I will often go to the place that is most convenient rather than find myself in a routine of visiting the same spot.

What delivered me to the dinner table of Saliha Sardar is the sort of thing that vilifies the timeless cliché that ‘things happen for a reason’. And God has a keen sense of poetic irony and justice, crafting the whole story and not necessarily catering to your liking.

My work explores the relationship between religion and modernity. Many of my paintings draw conceptually on the social and cultural phenomena associated with the Muslim world, which is why I have named my particular style ‘Islamicate Impressionism.’

When the march happened, I was in the Caffè Nero above Blackwell’s trying to write a story about Luz, a woman I had met doing fieldwork in Colombia on polarisation.

Three poems by Farid Bitar.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975), the Italian Marxist film director, was a towering polymath who made a significant contribution to shaping the intellectual and political landscape of the twentieth century.